Monday, June 28, 2010

FINALLY!!!

I've been waiting for like a month to start my ballet shrug, but I didn't have the yarn. Today my Knitpicks goodies FINALLY came!!! It was 6 skeins of Comfy Worsted, an interchangeable needle set, and a yarn cutter. Overall, things have been going pretty well.

My gauge was off by half a stitch, which seems to happen every time. Unfortunately it was half a stitch less, because my wrist circumference is only about six inches. I guess I should have bought 7 mm needles to go with the set because maybe I'd get the perfect gauge on those. But maybe an oversized warm-up is just what I need...when I get cold, it's really annoying.

I've been moving along quickly with this pattern, considering I memorized it even before I started. I love how it's really soft and feels like some sort of designer thing, but it's really made of humble yarn from Walmart and Knitpicks. However, what does get annoying is when the cables break. But usually I fix it without dropping stitches, which is good.

We couldn't start filming today, but we will on Wednesday. However, tomorrow I'm sleeping over at Bethany's where I will swim in my tail for the very first time. I can't wait!!!!! I've gotta go now...knitting to catch up on.
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Sunday, June 27, 2010

Vegas, baby!!!

So yesterday I was in Vegas. I only spent one day there, the purpose of which was to check up on the investment property we own there. But it was fun. Well, most of it anyway.

I had my first experience with a real time yarn store there at Gail's Knits. It was awesome there, but I felt like a misfit because I was about one fifth of the age of the people just sitting and knitting. I couldn't get over the awkwardness, so I spent most of the time browsing the aisles in the back. They didn't really have what I was looking for, so I picked up a hank of Cascade 220. I usually add yarn to my stash with a specific project in mind, but this purchase was totally random, and I couldn't exactly leave empty handed. They wound it up for me, as shown here:


It's surprisingly soft for an all wool yarn. Who cares if they're different colors, it would look great with the Sugar and Cream I picked up the other day in some Ankle Warmers. Now all I need is some big DPNs to actually make them.

The long road trips did give birth to another FO, my Irish Hiking Scarf. I don't really know what I'll do with it, though since it's pretty short, and scarves aren't needed that much around here. The Cascade 220 really did come in handy because I didn't end up having enough Red Heart for the bind off. I thought the contrast edging looked cool, so I picked up stitches along the CO edge. I didn't really bother weaving in the ends, because I just wanted to get this one over with. I'm going to machine wash this anyway though, because a felted edge would really stand out.


I also went to the arcade at Circus Circus where I won 500 or so tickets, not to mention 20 that some random dude gave me. I spent 400 on a Dubble Bubble gumball dispenser. I'm the only one who gets to take out stuff from it for free. I blew 100 on a lame-o necklace, just to get rid of the tickets. The rest were spent on Jolly Ranchers, which I unfortunately didn't get to eat.

I finally found the video camera charger, so tomorrow we're probably going to start filming our show. The hardest part though, is going to be deciding what to wear. I want to wear something flattering, so I can't really let Polyvore do the work for me this time.
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Thursday, June 24, 2010

The wait is over...

I didn't really knit as much as I should have today. But I did spend most of the time at my friend's house. We went over to her godmother's house. It was awesome, and her godmother was great to have around. She had a sewing machine, so we FINALLY made our tails (FINALLY some sort of an FO). I'll show you Bethany's tail later, maybe in a video, but here's mine:

A section of the seaming is ripped but it's not that obvious. In addition, Bethany broke my monofin.

I also think I know why many knitters hate Red Heart. The fact that it's acrylic might have to do with it, but the center was tangled like crazy. I had to cut the yarn from my cabled scarf and wind it. This is what I got:


And that's not even all of the center. The rest is my failed attempt at using a glass jar to wind the yarn into a center pull cake. Of course I remembered to rejoin the yarn though=D
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Wednesday, June 23, 2010

New sets and life in general

Looks like today, I'm doing nothing...again. I'm planning on making my Irish Hiking Scarf, but most scarves get boring after knitting for some time. I'm always looking for excuses to put down the needles, it seems. But I'm not binding off till I run out of yarn. Row 7 or not Row 7, I don't care.

My mom gave me an offer to take me to Jo-Ann's to buy yarn. I didn't feel like babysitting my brother today, and I didn't think I'd need anything at Jo-Ann's so I refused the offer, just for today. But afterwards, I realized I needed a Pound of Love to make the Sunny Baby Blanket in my Ravelry queue. I didn't really need a circular needle...I could actually have started working on it. I guess even the smartest people can do the stupidest things.

But I did make some Polyvore sets, just to try to cope with my anger against meself.

I used "Girlfriend" for background music because this set was inspired by Avril Lavigne, and I can totally relate.


Still a WIP... still need to add the ballet shrug when I've finished it.



A random one.
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Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Can't really think of a title...

I was totally bored today so I spent most of the time working on an Irish Hiking Scarf. I don't really have enough yarn to make it scarf length, but this is just a stash buster project. I knit through it pretty fast, mostly because my entire day was spent knitting, because my friend was at Disneyland. Well I guess some people are the lucky ones. I've done about 12 inches, and that's pretty impressive, considering it took me a week to finish the easiest project in the world (a stockinette stitch striped scarf I memorized within the first two days).

My mom had a little bit of free time today (she works from home) so I wanted her to take me to a yarn store about 20 minutes away. She said no so I went to this small craft store. There wasn't that great of a selection of yarn there, but they did have a comfy knitting nook and Cascade stuff. I wanted to get the Cloud 9 I would need for these Ankle Warmers but it was $10 per skein and I needed two, so I didn't have enough money. I ended up getting a Knit Chek and a couple skeins of Sugar and Cream, also for the ankle warmers (the yarn's held double). I wanted to knit it in pale blue, but they didn't really have enough Sugar and Cream in the same dyelot.

I've been dying to make this shrug pattern from Find Your Style and Knit it Too. But this is a library book, and time after time I've renewed it, but something's been holding me back every single time. But I've finally ordered some yarn off of Knitpicks that might work. There's also a ton of stuff in my queue from this book. What do I do to make sure I have the patterns, even if I don't have the book?
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